“On a scale of 1 to 10, how much is your pain.” That was until now the only way for doctors to assess a patient’s pain and especially young people children . Difficult to prescribe the right treatment, since nobody feels the same way an injury.
But researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have developed software to assess pain through facial recognition. Their study of 50 young people aged 5 to 18 after an appendectomy, was published Monday in the journal Pediatrics .
A better estimate than nurses?
The researchers filmed the young patient for three postoperative visits. A 24 hours after surgery, the other one day later and the last two to four weeks after the operation. FACS, software, based its analysis on 46 signs of the face as tight eyelids, brows furrowed, upper lip raised or drooping jaw.
The researchers say that the evaluation of pain given by the patient and parents is very close to that given by the software. This is even more accurate than the assessment by the nurse.
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